"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a God; look straight at me and you see yourself."

Manson, Charles on perspective
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"The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials."

Twain, Mark on insanity   

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on insanity
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on history and historians
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else."

Allen, Woody on regret
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"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody on relationship
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Chekhov, Anton on doctors
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Bacon, Francis on doctors
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

Aristotle on humankind
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

Poe, Edgar Allan on religion
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Poe, Edgar Allan on perfection
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."

Hegel, Georg on reason